Jasmin Kaur: Discovering Your Authentic Voice
Curious to discover ways to uncover your inner voice? Or how to embrace vulnerability when telling your story? How about ways to practice self-care when crafting difficult scenes? We talk…
This AND That: Being a Hybrid Writer by Alexandra Villasante
My abuela lived in Uruguay and was a curandera—a wise woman, healer or, depending on who you asked, a witch. Her name was Herosilda, but everyone called her Yuyú for…
Jason Reynolds on The Power of Story
Curious to learn the power story can have in our healing processes? How about tips on navigating the financial side of the publishing industry? Or ways to vividly craft emotion…
PITCH WARS: Extra! Extra! Hear all about it!
Curious about Pitch Wars? How does becoming a Pitch Wars mentee help you with your writing career and your chances of landing a literary agent? How do you stand out…
The spiritual side of reading & writing, and the guilt of not doing enough of either by Brittney Morris
My debut novel SLAY—a book about a Black teen game developer who creates a Wakanda-inspired VR game with duel cards based on Black culture and Black history—comes out September 24th.…
Ally Condie on Finding Your Creative Spark
Curious to discover ways to get into the writing groove? How about advice on working with smaller publishing houses? Or best practices for co-authoring a novel? We talk about it…
The Outsider is all of us by Julie Kibler
I was a shy kid—painfully so—who moved a lot and struggled to fit in wherever my family landed. We were almost, but not quite in poverty, lived at the wrong…
The Power of Smart Girls in Fantasy by Annie Sullivan
I once had an older man tell me to my face that he “didn’t read books written by women.” I was a teenager at the time and had no idea…
